Rich Quotes by Matthew Desmond

10 Rich quotes by Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond’s research on housing and inequality informs these ten concise observations, giving readers a quick, data‑informed view on the dynamics of riches.

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Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

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“Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things.”

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“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along”

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Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of…

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I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the…

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Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a…

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“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated…

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If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to…

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The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to…

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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

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You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

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Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

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I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

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I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't…

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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

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“Sherrena nodded reassuringly and said, almost to herself, “I guess I got to stop feeling sorry for these people because nobody is feeling sorry…

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Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

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A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to…

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“It was once said that the poor are 'constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.' Especially for poor African-American families - who live…

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A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

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“Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local…

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